Patience is something that I really don’t do well. I don’t have much of it when it comes to things that I think my life will turn into. I have been forced to be patient in life. Especially with the career path that God has called me into. Ive told myself for the last few years that the next paying job I get I want it to be in the ministry. I am blessed not to have to need to get into something that I know is not for me. So Im just going to explore every ministry opportunity that comes my way. That being said there aren’t that many people knocking down my door to get me to work with them. But I trying my hardest to be patient to figure out what God wants me to do. To me it looks kind of like this. There are three options for me to take. Behind door number 1 is a great opportunity. It just seems like a long shot from happening considering the circumstances of it being so far away from me. And I would have to fully support myself because of the fact that it is an unpaid internship. Which would be very hard for me to do at this point in my life. But I guess there is never a really great time to move all the way across the country away from everyone and everything that I know is there? If that is what I have to do to get to where God wants me to be in life I’ve gotta do it! Behind door number 2 is another great opportunity a whole lot closer to me which makes it seem like a much better fit for what I think I need to do right now. It is an amazing opportunity with an awesome church that I can really see myself joining and working along side of the great staff they have there. That too is unpaid. But with this church I would be holding on to the fact that sometime in the near future it could turn into a paid position which would be awesome. Behind door number 3 there is the option to just stay where I am and hope something opens up for me around this door. I feel like Ive done all I can do behind door number three so I kind of want to take a step away from that door and move on. But what if that is not the right thing for me to do right now. So thats what Im struggling with at this moment in time. I hope to soon know the plan that God has for me because Id rather not waste time being somewhere that God doesn’t have me to be. I want to be in his will in all my endeavors. If Im not in His will I would be better off not doing anything at all. Its at times like this that I turn to a verse in Galatians 6:9 which says, “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” So what that verse is saying is that we need to continue doing Gods work and be patient. Whenever its right Gods timing I know that I will receive better opportunities than I could ever dream of. Im am having to remember that very fact in this situation. I will continue in all the ministry opportunities that God puts me in and just keep being patient until I find the right job opportunity that He wants to put me into.
